Rachael has never been able to do a decent layback because of her back problems, but she got L3 and L4 on her other spins.

I've always found it interesting that she has done some pretty nice layback Ina Bauers (especially in her Moulin Rouge gala program at the first WTT, I think, that I can't find a video of anymore), despite the back issues.

I've always found it interesting that she has done some pretty nice layback Ina Bauers (especially in her Moulin Rouge gala program at the first WTT, I think, that I can't find a video of anymore), despite the back issues.

No, one of the judges gave her a 3.00 in transitions, but 4's and 5s in everything else, so I think it was a typo or something.

Possibly. Or possibly that judge thought that there weren't many transitions in the program, the quality or difficulty was weak, a lot of the elements were telegraphed, etc. Haven't seen the program, and we're not in that judge's head, so we don't know. But if we want judges to judge the separate components separately, we can't complain when they actually do so.

However her competition at sectionals will be stiffer. As far as I know, Angela Wang, Caroline Zhang and Vanessa Lam only have byes through regionals and will be at Sectionals. Mirai will have a bye through Nationals thanks to her GP schedule and Polina Edmunds has a bye due to making JGPF.

We've seen her do at least three different triples this year (3Z, 3F, and 3S) so theoretically she can do at least 5 in an LP. That should be enough to get to nationals at least if she can pull the jumps off.